Proverbs 2:18,19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

For her house inclineth unto death Conversation with her (which was most usual in her own house) is the certain way to death, which it brings many ways, and undoubtedly, without repentance, to God's wrath and the second death. None that go unto her That is, few or none; a hyperbolical expression, used Isaiah 64:7; return again From her and from this wicked way unto God and his ways. Whoremongers and adulterers are very rarely brought to repentance, but are generally hardened by the power and deceitfulness of their sin, and by God's just judgment, peculiarly inflicted upon such persons, Hebrews 13:4; neither take they hold of the paths of life Of those courses which lead to true and eternal life and happiness.

Proverbs 2:18-19

18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.